Questions: What were the bog fire patterns and frequencies in two boreal peatlands during
the last 5000 years? What is the nature and time‐scale of post‐fire vegetation successions …

The stratigraphical variation of charcoal abundance in a postglacial peat deposit, together
with palynological and sedimentological data, was used for a reconstruction of vegetation …

Fire has long been associated with boreal forest systems, but its natural role in European
temperate forest is poorly known. Fire regimes in Europe have been significantly influenced …

Fire disturbance is considered paramount for regeneration and biodiversity in the boreal
forest with prescribed burning widely advocated in present day forest management …

The presence of charcoal in the soil profile, derived from former forest fires, has long been
considered a fairly ubiquitous phenomenon in the boreal forests of northern Sweden. In …

We re‐evaluated mid‐and late H olocene fire records at three bog sites in southern F inland
and E stonia through quantitative and qualitative analysis of sedimentary charcoal records …

Questions Is the current aspen or goat willow populations in boreal old‐growth forest a
legacy of the historical fires? Location A middle‐boreal, old‐growth forest landscape with a …

In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands
(bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and …

A Holocene fire history of dry heath forests of Cladina and Empetrum—Vaccinium types in
eastern Finland was reconstructed on the basis of charcoal layer data from two small mire …

Analysis of pollen, charcoal and loss‐on‐ignition in peat cores from a Picea aèies‐
dominated swamp forest in central Sweden show the vegetation changes and disturbance …